Chords for Soundgarden: The Story Behind Slaves & Bulldozers

All right, you want to move on to slaves
Okay, that was like a to me.
I remember
What song we were working on we were working on fell on black days, which is not on here which wound up on
Echo of miles or no telephantasm, right?
Yeah, like an early version of it.
Yeah, we were
Well, what ended up being black rain?
Yes, but the lyrics were early early
I have a back lyrics black days who didn't even really have a title.
No, not that I remember you and Chris were
Arranging it _ and Matt was sitting there
_ You started playing jamming off of the verse actually off that black rain.
Yep, and came but then it was kind of in my
_ _ Weird memory of it you guys just came in Matt's hat behind the drums
And you guys got your guitars on and we all started playing it and then Chris took it home
from there
_ It made the cool sections of the song
_ the
The chorus came from a song that I was doing it wasn't a song
it was just a riff and Scott Sunquist and I who you know, our
first drummer after me I _ _
Was at his house kind of messing around we were just kind of making up _
_ sort of a collage of
Noise things and kind of editing them together and there was this dead spot where I couldn't get from one thing to another
And I started playing that riff and the riff was what connected those two things and I felt like that's got to be a song
But there were there were there was a chant over it which went _ _
Take dope feel good do it.
Yeah _ _
And and Scott would he had an overdub where he would go take a dope bar
and it reminded me of this kind of Jim Jones kind of scary thing and
I just always liked it and that riff sort of fit in great with Ben's riff
And and then you know, obviously I had to write a melody and chorus stuff over it
But that's where that initial riff of the chorus came from and the title had _
The title is the most interesting part.
Yeah
_ _ My best friend worked at the United Indians of all tribes foundation here.
I used to work there too in the [Bb] early 80s
At the Daybreak Star.
Well, Terry was married [N] there.
I got married there.
Yeah, the Daybreak Star.
That's right
Yeah, I I worked a few weddings there and I attended a few as well
but so there's a head start [E] program and
My friend was a teacher's assistant for the program and would drive the school bus [G] and there was one particularly
interesting [Gb] and colorful kid who who played differently with the other boys and girls and
They're out at recess [Eb] once and [E] as the kid was
Making these truck sounds and moving forward [Gm] and just moving in a straight [Abm] line and pushing anyone who is in his way
and
_ But somehow being amiable [N] with everyone else and other kids are enjoying his company _ _
So my buddy Brad asks, what are you playing Tristan? _
_ Because we're playing slaves and bulldozers, I think there's some other weird thing about like it's certain kids sit down
Indian style and other kids and other kids stand up and then what I mean cross-legged, but so I _
recounted this story anecdotally [Bb] and the title slaves [A] and bulldozers
which this little [Ab] kid came up a game that he played a recess with just hilarious and [Bbm] colorful and _
_ [E] And it fit it fits with music tough back then during those times when that record came out and
Everybody [D] from Seattle was [E] breaking and there's [Eb] music going on.
Everybody was doing [Bb] stuff the typical night in Seattle for
_ [G] That age group was to go to eat dinner
_ Drink beers and go to [F] a show because there's a show almost every night of the week
So you wind up in these different bars, and that's how I would know
[B] When I was at a place where there were [G] actual real sound guard [A] not
Mainstream fans because that's the one song they would play [Db] on the [F] jukebox, but they didn't [D] care
Anybody was around [E] that's the one they wanted to play.
I was like, wow, this is a [D] place where
SG fans hang out.
Yeah
_ _ [Bb] That's [Gb] yes songs a lot [E] of fun to play.
It's probably the
[B] part of the
Freest songs to play live.
It's it
You _ [F] know, its length is [G] indeterminate
It's our [D] show and or yeah, [Bb] there's it [F] leaves a lot of [D] room for at least at least for [E] me from my perspective _
_ [N] I think doesn't be five minutes seven minutes nine minutes
It's been all those things maybe longer, but even the way it's the sections are played for the most part
There's they're they're pretty free or Louie.
Louie bolero
_ They allow a lot of room for doing other stuff I Louie Louie burl, yeah, it is I
_ _ Was trying to [B] make it sound like a fretless bass
Instead [D] of actually having [C] the fret sound [F] that the whole that [Eb] whole record I was
On [Ab] the way [Gb] to recording it leaving [F] brain damage island to go all the way up there to Bear Creek _
and listen to Duke Ellington and
_ [D] _ By Charles Mingus and double [Eb] nickels on the dime that whole time every day
That was my routine is listening to those things trying to learn
Oh, and I'd listen to entering from [E] the early SG stuff trying to figure out what the bloody hell [Eb] hero was playing
I still have yet to figure that [Bb] song out _
_ [G] So I was all jazzed up and I was [Bb] trying to
Figure out [E] tones and it's like I'd never really [Db] played bass before [E] so I was trying to like wait a [D] minute
Let's imply the sound instead of actually doing the sound there's one song on here Matt song.
Um _
_ Drawing flies.
Yes drawing flies where I did actually play his fretless
For a second and I [Db] felt like a cheat for doing that.
It's like wait a minute
You shouldn't be doing that.
You gotta make it [A] sound fretless not be fretless try to [E] imply sounds instead of [B] actually do them
How did you [Ab] accomplish that with a fretted bass then [E] sloppiness?
He's [D] playing sloppy.
[F] I must have been playing fretless guitar all over sleighs and bulldozers _